As Belfast Picture Competition 2025 launches, the group are prominently displaying pictures of Lough Neagh’s Poisonous Blue Inexperienced Algal on digital billboards throughout the town, to recognise the fragility, immediacy and urgency of the exhibitions on Pure Heritage. Small algal blooms are already showing across the Lough and can quickly – but once more – trigger the widespread hazard, disruption and dismay skilled in earlier years. Moreover, to seize and share up shut how so lots of the underlying causes of this advanced challenge stay unchecked The group have additionally put in 3 deactivated water coolers at Botanic Gardens, the Ulster Museum and Belfast Uncovered, crammed and sealed with water from the Lough’s surroundings, together with algae from the Lough, slurry scum from its tributaries and the outflow water from an industrial space. The water coolers are deactivated and branded with a public warning sticker as utilized by the general public authorities. They offer the general public an opportunity to rise up near the identical air pollution and effluent that’s pouring right into a pure treasure and the supply of over 40% of Northern Eire’s ingesting water. (Belfast Picture Competition)
